4507R-E Ports Inactive

[bradley.copass1]

I have a 4507R-E that i have having problems getting Gi3/5,gi3/6 and 4/5 to go active.  I have my 10G Cards in slots Te3/1 and Te4/1 Connected to my Nexus 7k. 

I need to connect to 2 different 2960S's via the 4507.  There are 1000BaseSX GBICs in the 2960s also.

Here is the output from Mod 3 and Mod 4:

Port      Name               Status       Vlan       Duplex  Speed Type

Te3/1                        connected    trunk        full    10G 10GBase-SR

Te3/2                        inactive     1            full    10G No X2

Gi3/3                        inactive     1            full   1000 No Gbic

Gi3/4                        inactive     1            full   1000 No Gbic

Gi3/5                        inactive     1            full   1000 1000BaseSX

Gi3/6                        inactive     1            full   1000 1000BaseSX

Te4/1                        connected    trunk        full    10G 10GBase-SR

Te4/2                        inactive     1            full    10G No X2

Gi4/3                        inactive     1            full   1000 No Gbic

Gi4/4                        inactive     1            full   1000 No Gbic

Gi4/5                        inactive     1            full   1000 1000BaseSX

Gi4/6                        inactive     1            full   1000 No Gbic

I have done the hw-module module 3 port-group 2 select gi command on both modules 3 and 4 for port group 2 but still showing inactive.

Any Help would be much appreciated!!!!!!!!

thanks,

[Jonathancert_2]

The Sup6L-E does not support shared backplane.   The below quote is from the Borderless Campus Design Guide.

Sup6L-E Uplink Port Design

The Sup6L-E uplink port functions the same as the Sup6-E in non-redundant mode. However, in

redundant mode the hardware design of the Sup6L-E differs from the Sup7-E, as the Sup6-E currently

does not support a shared backplane mode that allows the active use of all uplink ports. The Catalyst

4500E deployed with the Sup6L-E may use the 10G uplinks of port group 1 from the active and standby

supervisors when the upstream device is a single, highly-redundant Catalyst 4500E chassis. If the

upstream device is deployed with chassis redundancy, (i.e., Cisco VSS), then it is recommended to build

a full-mesh network design between each supervisor and each virtual switch node. For such a design, the

network administrator must consider deploying the Sup7-E or Sup6-E supervisor module that supports

four active supervisor uplink forwarding paths or deploying the 4500-E with Sup6L-E supervisor by

leveraging the existing WS-4606 Series 10G linecard to build a full-mesh uplink.

Jonathan,

[bradley.copass1]

Thank you both for your input!  I read the design guide but should have read further about the 6L-E...would have saved a lot of trouble!

For others that might read this, as a workaround, i have taken 3 GB Cables and ether-channeled 3 ports together and connected a 2960 and the mentioned 4507 trunked together and have configured the 2960 GBICs to uplink to my other closets...